Repression × Resurgence × Reemergence

One hundred years of re-possessing and re-appropriating Irish identity

June 3 - June 25, 2016, Hillyer Art Space

Solas Nua, in collaboration with Hillyer Art Space, is proud to relaunch its visual arts programming with this exhibition. To celebrate and commemorate the 1916 Rising, Solas Nua curator Jackie Hoysted invited a number of visual artists to create works that investigate Irish cultural identity. The exhibition includes a sampling of artists for whom Ireland is their own or their forefathers' birthplace, or their adopted home.   

The artists were invited to ponder what it means to be Irish and what is meant by the term "Irishness." Today the cultural landscape in Ireland is rich and diverse and quite different than what it may have been in 1916. Who are the Irish today, how has the past shaped them and how are they shaping the Irish of the future?